Jennifer Lopez is dropping the name Affleck. The entertainer, who after in July 2022, requested to change her surname back to Lopez when she from the actor on Aug. 20, according to documents obtained by TODAY.
com. The "Jenny from the Block" singer also specified in her divorce petition, which she filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, that the court deny her and her ex the ability to collect spousal support. Lopez's request to change her legal name back to her own comes less than two years after she who said she should have never taken Affleck's name in the first place.
Speaking to in November 2022, Lopez responded to a op-ed by Jennifer Weiner that compared a woman taking her husband's surname to a "submission," arguing that the gesture "doesn’t say 'I belong with him' so much as 'I belong him.'" The essay argued that at this "fraught moment for feminism in America," Lopez "deciding to change her name feels especially dispiriting." Lopez responded by saying she was "proud" to use Affleck's name as her own.
“People are still going to call me Jennifer Lopez. But my legal name will be Mrs. Affleck because we’re joined together.
We’re husband and wife. I’m proud of that. I don’t think that’s a problem," she told Vogue.
The singer and actor added, however, that she wouldn't want Affleck to use last name. “It’s not traditional. It doesn’t have any romance to it.
It feels like it’s a power move, you know what I mean? I’m very much in control of my own life.